Two sisters. Two cities. One dog. Two cats. And lots and lots of yarn.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Christmas tree gifties

It has been a while since I have shown any knitting, but I now that I have gifted every knitted thing that I intend to give for Christmas, I thought I should show what I have done. I have finished a few other things this fall, but will show them later.

The first is a Turn-a-Square hat, pattern by Jared Flood of Brooklyn Tweed, made out of part of one ball of Noro Kureyon and a skein of brown wool I purchased during a vacation in New England and Canada this fall; specifically purchased at Northern Waters in Charlottetown, PEI.

The top of the hat looks really good with the square lines.

I made a matching seaman's scarf out of the remains of the two skeins plus a bit more brown from another skein, and gifted both in a Seafarer;'s Christmas At Sea box.

For my friend Liz (with whom I share a sometimes cold office) I made a pair of Marywarmers, out of some knitivity hand dyed sock yarn in Liz' favorite color. I shortened the length of the arm by knitting 4 repeats before beginning the thumbs, and did two sets of short rows across the back of the hand, as the radiating rib pattern tends to make that side shorter than the palm side.

The color is fairly true in the closeup.

Finally, I knit Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's Pretty Thing out of Frog Tree Alpaca for coworker Lisa L. It was a fairly fast pattern, but it had been a while since I had knit lace, and it took me longer than I expected at the start just to get back into the swing of it,

I blocked the cowl on a roll of paper towels, as recommended by someone (whose name I don't remember) on ravelry, and that worked well.

So, for Christmas, a red project, a green project, and brown - it must be a Christmas tree!